In the closing phases of WWII, 'foo fighters'-first began to appear. Contemporary witnesses of the "Foo Fighter" phenomena's generally assumed that the foo fighters were new enemy weapons. At the culmination of the War neither side claimed credit for their presence.

It has been speculated that the foo fighters and many subsequent aerial phenomena were and are associated with a Nazi secret project code named The Bell Project

Polish writer Igor Witkowski first publicized the Bell project in his book The Truth about the Wunderwaffe 1, he claims to have discovered the existence of the Bell project after seeing transcripts of a KGB interrogation of SS general Jakob Sporrenberg.

Sporrenberg is said to have given detailed information about a bell shaped device filled with a substance similar to mercury, which utilized huge amounts of electrical power. The Bell was said to be a hazardous anti-gravity experiment, which caused illness, and death in research subjects and researchers alike .

An ancient Hindu manuscript, circa 1000 AD. Describes a very similar machine

"Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. ..." The Samarangana Sutradhara [translates to "battlefield commander"]

According to another ancient Hindu text the Mahabarata 2 , one Vimana variety was shaped like a sphere and borne along at great speed on a mighty wind generated by mercury

The Nazis upper echelon were known to be obsessive regarding ancient "magic" and in particular that deriving from India which they considered an ancestral home of the Aryan race. Perhaps the Idea for the Bell initiated in Hindu tales of flying Vimana aircraft, which themselves are very similar in description to modern tales of UFOs.

Science writer ,aviation reporter and editor at Jane's Defence Weekly ,Nick Cook in The Hunt for Zero Point further describes the Nazi Bell

"The Nazi-Bell device consisted two of counter-rotating cylindrical containers. The containers, which were positioned one above the other measured approximately 1-meter in diameter, and were filled with cryogenically cooled and frozen Mercury metal. There was a frozen core of a metallic paste, which served as a "high permeability material" for the EMG (electromagnetic-gravitational) field."

When the German upper echelon realized that the war was unwinnable, key leaders and scientists began to evaporate leaving Germany and disappearing from public view. Hypothetically, these Nazi secret science projects were dismantled and allegedly shuffled off to points unknown. South America and Antarctica rank high as locales of interest.

In 1945, "The Bell" was removed from its underground bunker under the command of, and accompanied by SS General Dr. Hans Kammler [SS General Kammler was also in charge of the V-2 missile program.] aboard a massive long range German aircraft [The very first aircraft equipped for mid-air refueling and the only one large enough to carry the Bell], never to be seen or heard from again 3 . Speculation is that it wound up in South America.

Witkowski [The Truth about the Wunderwaffe

1]>claims that more than 60 scientists associated with the project were assassinated by the SS before the Bell was transported. Cook believes SS general Hans Kammler made a deal with the US military ,in exchange for the technology.

In 1991, Vladimir Terziski [See Nazi UFOs & The Illuminati Conspiracy], a Bulgarian immigrant, claims to have come into possession of a Nazi documentary describing some of their special weapons programs. Of particular interest is the secret V-7 projects , which were allegedly a series of circular craft which could rise and descend vertically and fly at extreme velocity and altitudes.

There were several designs within the V-7 program. The Hanebu models and Vril models are early prototypes there were most likely more variations beyond that. The Hanebu models allegedly were large discs ranging from 75 to 120 feet in diameter.

The Vril models were smaller deeper discs with spherical protrusions underneath. As in the photograph below.

In 1952 and 1953 George Adamski allegedly photographed very similar bell-shaped flying objects.

The bulk of the Adamski story is bizarre, and had it not been for the similarities to the German projects, of which Adamski could have not had knowledge, I personally would have dismissed it as the ranting of a buffoon.

That Adamski had contact with UFOs is a probability, that their occupants were from "Venus" is highly unlikely. More probable is that they were [If they existed at all] simply Earth People involved in a high tech project. The balance of the Adamski story is either the work of an over active imagination on the part of Adamski, or intentional misinformation / noise fed to him, for what purpose I can only imagine.

Betty and Barney Hill, alleged UFO abductees, described the leader of his "Alien" captors as looking like a "German Nazi" wearing a shiny black jacket, scarf and cap. The Hills claim [Under hypnosis] to have seen what appeared to be men in Nazi SS Uniforms aboard the craft that abducted them.

Dr. Wernher von Braun, regarded as the father of the United States space program, worked under SS general Jakob Sporrenberg as technical director at the Peenemunde Rocket Center in Germany. There he and his team had built the infamous V-2 rocket . When von Braun and his colleagues realized that Germany would lose the war , and Russian troops would soon occupy Peenemunde, they fled the rocket development site in droves. Most eventually surrendered to American forces. More than 100 members of the von Braun team came to the United States to work under US Army supervision.

Walter Dohrnberger ,sentenced to be hung at Nuremberg, was saved by Werner von Braun who refused to work for the US until he knew Dohrnberger was safe. Dohrnberger later became head of Bell Aerospace Corp

Over 300 other German scientists were incorporated into the US Military - Industrial mega complex. Many of these had skeletons in their closets. Case in point- Arthur Rudolph -NASA's project director for Saturn V Who later relinquished his U.S. citizenship rather than face charges for war crimes .

In 1945 American scientists were dispatched to Europe to collect information on German rocket research. The components for nearly 100 V-2 ballistic missiles was among the loot recovered and shipped to White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico.

In March 1945 a high ranking American General of US Strategic Forces in Europe, wrote to Lieutenant General Carl Spatz : "Occupation of German scientific and industrial establishments has revealed the fact that we have been alarmingly backward in many fields of research, if we do not take this opportunity to seize apparatus and the brains that developed it and put this combination back to work promptly, we will remain several years behind while we attempt to cover a field already exploited."

Gary McKinnon, a British hacker accused by the United States of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time", claims to have viewed NASA documents suggesting a space fleet operated by humans.

In Reich Of The Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons & The Cold War Allied Legend, the idea of dual space programs is examined."... One for public consumption, and the other hidden from view due to its advanced nature. The reach of the Nazis may have gone far beyond their defeat in April 1945. Was President John F. Kennedy assassinated because he was a threat to fascist interests in the latter part of the 20th Century? Certainly someone made a financial killing on the stock market in the first few days after the assassination." .. Publishers Weekly

McKinnon is accused of cracking into nearly 100 US military and NASA computers in 2001 and 2002. Including networks owned by NASA, the US Army, US Navy, Department of Defense and the US Air Force. McKinnon , in a statement made before the Washington Press Club on May 9, 2001 claimed that his motivation was to find evidence of UFOs, " ... and similar activities, all of which he claims to have proven through his actions.

Excerpts of Wired News interview w. Mckinnon

Wired News: Did you find anything in your search for evidence of UFOs?

McKinnon: Certainly did. There is The Disclosure Project. This is a book with 400 testimonials from everyone from air traffic controllers to those responsible for launching nuclear missiles. Very credible witnesses. They talk about reverse-(engineered) technology taken from captured or destroyed alien craft.

Wired News: Like the Roswell incident of 1947?

McKinnon: I assume that was the first and assume there have been others. These relied-upon people have given solid evidence.

Wired News: What sort of evidence?

McKinnon: A NASA photographic expert said that there was a Building 8 at Johnson Space Center where they regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging. I logged on to NASA and was able to access this department. They had huge, high-resolution images stored in their picture files. They had filtered and unfiltered, or processed and unprocessed, files.

My dialup 56K connection was very slow trying to download one of these picture files. As this was happening, I had remote control of their desktop, and by adjusting it to 4-bit color and low screen resolution, I was able to briefly see one of these pictures. It was a silvery, cigar-shaped object with geodesic spheres on either side. There were no visible seams or riveting. There was no reference to the size of the object and the picture was taken presumably by a satellite looking down on it. The object didn't look manmade or anything like what we have created. Because I was using a Java application, I could only get a screenshot of the picture -- it did not go into my temporary internet files. At my crowning moment, someone at NASA discovered what I was doing and I was disconnected.

I also got access to Excel spreadsheets. One was titled "Non-Terrestrial Officers." It contained names and ranks of U.S. Air Force personnel who are not registered anywhere else. It also contained information about ship-to-ship transfers, but I've never seen the names of these ships noted anywhere else.

1 Wunderwaffen is German for "wonder weapons", and was a term assigned during World War II by the Nazi propaganda ministry to a few revolutionary "superweapons". Wikipedia / Wunderwaffen. The book by Witkowski 'The Truth about the Wunderwaffe' is out of print and not readily available.

2 An ancient Hindu epic, Mahabarata is Translated as "the great tale of the Bharata Dynasty" . The epic is part of the Hindu itihāsa, Translated as "that which happened".

3. That it was never seen or heard from again is not quite accurate, as there is every indication that the Nazi Bell[s] is/are somewhat responsible for the post WWII UFO epidemic.